Nicole Hensley

Houston

Courtroom hopping for the @HoustonChron, @spocats wrangler. I will eventually ask if you want a stray dog. Past: @SpokesmanReview, @NYDailyNews

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Oscar Rosales 'almost got away' with Houston deputy's killing, prosecutors say

5 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

Oscar Rosales, center, stands for the jury, flanked by two of his lawyers, Rudy Duarte, left, and Jon Stephenson, right, as the capital murder trial against Rosales gets underway in the 482nd District Court in Houston, Monday, June 2, 2025. Rosales is accused in the 2022 shooting the death of Precinct 5 deputy constable Charles Galloway. The state is seeking the death penalty.
Who is Oscar Rosales, the man Harris County wants to put to death?

5 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Tanya Babbar |Nicole Hensley

Oscar Rosales, accused in the fatal shooting of Harris County Constable Pct. 5 Cpl. Charles Galloway, appears in front of Hon. Maritza Antu at the 482nd court Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at Harris County Criminal Courts at Law in Houston. Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerFor the second time this year, Harris County prosecutors will urge a jury that a Salvadoran national accused of killing a constable’s deputy in 2022 should be sentenced to death.
Who was the slain deputy at the center of Oscar Rosales' death penalty trial?

5 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Tanya Babbar |Nicole Hensley

Sergio Martinez holds a memorial portrait he painted of Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Corporal Charles Galloway as he waits to go into the funeral for Corporal Galloway at Second Baptist Church West Campus, 19449 Katy Freeway, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 in Houston. Martinez said he wants to give the painting to the family. Corporal Galloway was fatally shot during a traffic stop in southwest Houston on Jan. 23.
Ex-DA Ogg airing of Jocelyn Nungaray evidence prompts ethics concerns

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

Franklin Pena appears in the 232nd District Criminal Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. Pena is one of two men charged with capital murder over the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. Pena was held on $10 million bail by a District Judge Josh Hill. Brett Coomer/Staff photographerFormer district attorney Kim Ogg is shown speaking to press on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024 in Houston.
Harris County spent $1.8 million to defend Xavier Davis in death penalty trial

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

Harris County spent about $1.8 million in taxpayer funds for Xavier Davis to defend himself from the death penalty, court records show, but the true cost is likely higher. Prosecutors worked more than 2,200 hours during the trial, but neither their salaries nor the cost of the state’s witnesses and experts are included in that tally. The district attorney’s office has not answered a records request outlining their spending.
Man accused in deputy's death, flagged by Gov. Abbott, may reach plea deal

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

Prosecutors were poised Wednesday to offer a plea deal and more to a man charged in the death of an off-duty Harris County constable deputy — a killing Gov. Greg Abbott called out in his pursuit to change bail laws — as long as he testifies against the accused shooter. Jayland Womack, 23, stands to trade his word about who shot Precinct 3 deputy Omar Ursin in August 2022 in exchange for the dismissal of one of his cases.
DA Sean Teare drops charges against Steven Hotze over conspiracy-fueled assault

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | John Ferguson |Nicole Hensley

The Harris County District Attorney's Office dropped four felony charges filed against Republican activist Steven Hotze, bringing an abrupt end to the case accusing him of plotting a election conspiracy-fueled assault on an AC repairman in 2020. The DA's office also announced it would drop three of five charges against Mark Aguirre, a private investigator working for Hotze who is accused of attacking the repairman and threatening him with a gun, in a Tuesday news release.
Former NFL player who killed girlfriend 'diabolical' her family says in court

3 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

One of the Harris County detectives behind the search for Taylor Pomaski declared her boyfriend, the former NFL athlete convicted in her death, “an evil man.”Lt. Wallace Wyatt said Kevin Ware, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and tampering with a corpse, refused to help in the search for the missing 29-year-old woman — last seen alive in April 2021. Her skeletal remains were found that December in a north Harris County ditch.
Former NFL player who killed girlfriend 'diabolical' and 'self-obsessed,' her family members say

3 weeks ago | statesman.com | Nicole Hensley

Lt. Wallace Wyatt said Kevin Ware, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and tampering with a corpse, refused to help in the search for the missing 29-year-old woman — last seen alive in April 2021. Her skeletal remains were found that December in a north Harris County ditch. By then, Ware was a person of interest but a grand jury’s indictment took five more months to secure. “You found my girl,” Pomaski’s mother, Leslie Mandeville, said Monday as she hugged Wyatt after court.
'Take me out': Ex-HPD cop Goines' mid-trial suicide plan detailed in court docs

1 month ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

The whispers of two Harris County deputies about former Houston police officer Gerald Goines’ unexecuted plan to take his own life have been revealed in court transcripts from his 2024 felony murder trial. Goines, 60, told a bailiff assigned to the 482nd District Court that he planned to disarm him and force his partner to “take me out,” the bailiff said last October.